Category : Keystone

TweetCanada has given a thumbs up to President Donald Trumps decision to advance the construction of two controversial oil pipelines. Despite environmental opposition, Trump has issued orders paving the way for their revival; one called Keystone XL would bring oil from Canadian oil sands, across six US states including Nebraska, ...

TweetThe GOP-controlled Senate failed to kill President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline Wednesday. It’s the first time lawmakers have voted on overriding a veto from Obama and it’s the president’s first veto in the new Congress, with Republicans ...

TweetThe Keystone XL pipeline has become a perfect symbol of Washington’s dysfunction. Democrats exaggerate its environmental impact while Republicans exaggerate its economic benefits. In the debate, each side talks past the other, because each cares more about gaining a political advantage than a policy achievement. Yet a ...

TweetCALGARY – By a razor-thin margin, which is sure to ignite fierce debate in U.S. Congress, a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of Nebraska has cleared a major obstacle for TransCanada Corp.’s $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline. Read the Nebraska Supreme Court’s full decision “Today’s ...

TweetOTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government, reacting to a White House threat to veto Keystone XL pipeline legislation, repeated on Tuesday its call for the United States to approve the contentious crude oil project. “Our position on Keystone remains the same: we believe the project should be ...